Re: [xml] Encoding attributes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:36:34PM +0200, chrisbee xml swing be wrote:
> A lot of question about encoding are already asked before. Following
> a previous mail (25 sep 2001) \"How to create an ISO-8859-1 encoded xml
> file? (following)\", it seems that the content of entities are output
> with the ISO-8859-1 characters, but not for attributes (that are output
> with hex encoding &x..;) ?
> I would like to know if there is a reason to handle attributes
> differently ? If no, is there something planned to take account also of
> attributes ?

  Hum, right. I don't remember this point being raised before, the
code handling this is xmlAttrSerializeContent() and could be changed
to avoid this effect quite easilly. However character references
are semantically totally equivalent (except for the special cases
of blanks characters) and an application should not care about the
distinction in the serialization. So yes this is a bit strange, but
no this wasn't a problem so far and shouldn't in general.

Daniel

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